Running Windows with No Services (2005, updated in 2009) (opens in new tab)

Microsoft did an unfortunately great job at silencing Mark Russinovich by hiring him. I really miss these kind of posts from him. I enjoyed them very much. Including all those useful tools he made and stopped making when Microsoft hired him.

> [Task Manager] has an internal list of processes that it considers critical and that it won’t terminate.

But we can use other tools for the job. Hah. Nice.

Being used to everything in the open as a Linux user, articles like these lifting the veil from Windows internals never cease to fascinate. I wonder how far Windows 10 could survive.